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Odd Pattern:
Access roads to the several projects presently under construction at the Missouri Valley Atlas missile site and the grading work being done at each project provide an odd pattern in this aerial picture. The road at the right and across the top of the…
Dodge trust board set to slice the pie
Hospitals and charities in Council Bluffs will vie for more than $150,000 in interest by the city's $1 million Dodge trust in 1989. City Attorney Dick Wade will advise five commissioners named two years ago to oversee distribution of interest earned…
Train tour guide needed; Dodge Park exhibit gets facelift
Putting New Skin...on the old Chicago, Burlington and Quincy locomotive 915 are Paul Long, 1234 Westside Drige [sic], and Lowell Stuvick, 715 Fifteenth Ave. The men, employees of Nelson Heating and Air Conditioning, are replacing rusted sections of…
Train work gets push
Checking For Damages...from vandalism and severe winters. John Batt assesses what needs to be done to the old locomotive in the train exhibit at Dodge Park, Batt, superintendent of parks, said $2,000 donated by Burlington Norther Railroad will be…
Giants of steam now relics of rust
Climbing Aboard...the once magnificent engine 814 in Dodge Park is City Arborist David Smith. Two engines, a caboose and a club car were to have served as the nucleus of a planned transportation museum. The plans fell through and vandals have made…
Thursday Morning Held A Surprise
Thursday Morning Held A Surprise...for those who thought winter was really over. An early morning snow blanketed the area, and kept prospective golfers away from the number one tee at Dodge Park golf course, Although trees and shrubs wore a thick…
Woman Drives Spike In Honor Of Husband; To finish No. 814 Track Thursday
Driving A Spike...in honor of her late husband is Mrs. Emma Silein.
Railroad Veteran Primps For Its Coming Out Party; Destined For Display
Engine Number 814...gets an admiring glance from Union Pacific roundhouse foreman Earl J. Webb, 3610 Fifth Ave. Webb is in charge of the restoration project on the huge locomotive.
North Portion of Dodge Park Was B ought by City; Was Not a Donation
Dodge Park...the portion north of Broadway, upper part of map, was purchased by city tax funds.
Dodge Park and Golf Course
wintry landscape in Dodge Park, with bare trees surrounded with snow in background, and snow-covered evergreen bushes in foreground.
Dodge Park and Golf Course
winter landscape in Dodge Park, with trees in background and bare branches of small bushes in the foreground.
Dodge Park and Golf Course
Evergreens in Dodge Park, surround by drifted snow, and with snow on the branches
Dodge Park and Golf Course
View of Dodge Park golf course, with clubhouse and greenery sculpted into "COUNCIL BLUFFS" and dates on either side: "1836"[?] and "1936" [?] in midground.
Dodge Park and Golf Course
landscape photo of Dodge Park in winter
Limestone Firm Will Mine Rock From Yawning Quarry - Tunnels Will Form Future Underground Warehouse
Rim's Eye View . . . shows the gaping proportions of the Missouri Valley Limestone Co. quarry. Arrow points to mine entrance. Walls of the pit rise more than 120 feet in places. Lake at the bottom, formed by seepage, is an estimated 40 feet deep.
Work Of Nature Ages Ago Is Being Reduced By Man - At Lime Kiln Hollow . . .
(top) This Huge Cut . . . was made in the ridge above the quarry so trucks could dump their loads in the valley beyond. The view looks toward the quarry. Dynamite sheds are seen at the right.
(bottom) Dumping Ground . . . for the useless shale…
(bottom) Dumping Ground . . . for the useless shale…
Hospital Rents An Administrator - Missouri Valley Tries New Program
Talking Shop . . . with charge nurse Kay Kult of Blair, Neb., is John McDonough, Community Memorial Hospital chief executive officer. Although nominally an employee of St. Joseph Hospital in Omaha, he runs the Missouri Valley hospital through a new…
Patient's Patio:
This beautiful concrete patio at Community Memorial Hospital at Missouri Valley offers patients an ideal spot for "sun treatment" while enjoying the wide expanse of Missouri River valley which stretches before them. The patio was planned free for the…
Portrait Given To Dodge House
Lincoln And Gen. Dodge...are subjects of this picture presented by Congressman Ben F. Jensen to Mrs. John A. Whittaker.